Preliminary Task

For my preliminary task, i had to film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down on a chair opposite another character in which he/she had to exchange a couple lines of dialogue. I had to use a variety of camera shots such as an over the shoulder shot, close up and two person shot. This task demonstrated match on action, a shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. The purpose of the preliminary task was to help me gain knowledge and experience of filming so i could prepare to use my new skills in my main task.

Here is my preliminary task:

My preliminary task was about a young boy Jayde who owed Paige money. He was on his way to Paige's office to drop the money in a bag. When he got to the office Paige opened the bag to see some money was missing so she grabbed her gun and the scene ended with panicking Jayde trying to escape out a door twisting the handle.


When i was shooting my preliminary task i felt everything went well though I had to shoot it twice due to the volume button on the camera being turned off so I didn't pick up any sound. I found it a little hard when editing the preliminary task on the 'final cut' software as i was new to it.